Monthly Archives: April, 2016

Worthy Reads: How the Junk Bond Bubble Will Burst

How the Junk Bubble Bubble Will Burst (Bloomberg) Dividends better than Buybacks (Bloomberg) Central Banks Running Low on Firepower (WSJ) M&A Crackdown Limiting Corporate Bond Supply (Financial...

Worthy Reads: Why Interest Rates Must Rise

Why Interest Rates Must Rise (Barron's) The Ugliest Earnings Season since 2009 (Marketwatch) Will Politics Stop the Yen Rise? (WSJ) Mainstream Economists Start to See Problems with...

The Monday Melee: Have Gasoline Price Hit Bottom?

Have Gasoline Prices Hit Bottom? Gasoline price plunged from mid-2014 to the beginning of 2015. Then from mid-2015 plunged again until early 2016, and since...

This Could Push the Economy over the Edge

As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Obama administration is in a mad dash to rush out the regulatory wish list of the...

Do Business Cycles Die of Old Age?

At a forum yesterday, former Fed Chair Bernanke said, "There is no sense in which expansions die of old age." That might be true...

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Congratulations, You’re Retired: Now What? Part 6

When we enter the real world after school, it...

U.S. Billionaires Target Congo’s Cobalt in Bid to Secure Energy Future

U.S.-backed KoBold Metals, supported by Jeff Bezos and Bill...

Congratulations, You Graduated into Retirement. Now What? #5

It’s graduation season and not just from school. Many...

World’s Leading EV Motor Factory to Supply Ferrari and Lamborghini

Sujita Sinha of Interesting Engineering reports that YASA, a...

Shale Plateau Looms as Global LNG Market Set to Double

The U.S. shale oil output may plateau or decline...

Retirement #4: How Do You Feel? How Will You Feel?

When it comes to retirement, two questions worth thinking...

China Dominates Battery Supply Chain: From Mine to Market

China dominates every stage of the global battery supply...

Stargate Project Breaks Ground in Texas

Shirin Ghaffary, Brody Ford, and Emily Chang of Bloomberg report that OpenAI,...

Hackers Target Coinbase: DOJ Opens Investigation into Data Breach

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation...

No SALT Please: Part II

You read here a couple of days ago that...